Sentence examples for dam safety from inspiring English sources

Under the Spitzer administration, the dam safety staff increased to 20.

Behind the News -- The disaster highlighted the problems of dam safety in Hawaii and throughout the United States.

About 800 employees work in activities like dam safety and licensing that do not have counterparts in other regulatory agencies.

Mr. Tierney said that many of the shortcomings in the dam safety program were related to staff shortages.

From 2004 through 2006, the dam safety office had fewer than seven employees on average, and at one point was down to three inspectors for the entire state.

"The problem is, we have concentrated on the major dams," John H. Moyle, chief of the dam safety section of the department, said in 2000.

Brazil's Senate has decided to create a temporary commission to review dam safety legislation - a new mining code has been stuck in Congress for years.

Now that that financing is in place, we will have an easier time enforcing the requirements of the dam safety act without taking away local lakes that have become an important amenity to local communities".

It is critical about the dam's social and environmental impact, she says, "but otherwise – in terms of dam safety and even in terms of water going downstream – the report is quite positive".

In recent years, the Department of Environmental Protection has been tightening enforcement of dam safety laws, widening its net to catch smaller dam owners who have flouted regulations for decades.

Because hydropower is Vietnam's cheapest source of electricity, EVN resists investing in measures such as dam-safety assessments that would further erode its financial position.